Ubuntu.comUB:CVE-2016-5300CVE-2016-5300
7.8 High
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
7.5 High
CVSS3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
0.007 Low
EPSS
Percentile
81.0%
The XML parser in Expat does not use sufficient entropy for hash
initialization, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial
of service (CPU consumption) via crafted identifiers in an XML document.
NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for
CVE-2012-0876.
Notes
| Author | Note |
|---|---|
| ebarretto | tla uses system expat as of 1.3.5+dfsg-15 |
| rodrigo-zaiden | it is also an incomplete fix for CVE-2012-6702, that followed CVE-2012-0876. libxmltok is not affected by any of these CVEs as it doesn’t have the hash functions. |
| OS | Version | Architecture | Package | Version | Filename |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ubuntu | 23.10 | noarch | audacity | < any | UNKNOWN |
| ubuntu | 24.04 | noarch | audacity | < any | UNKNOWN |
| ubuntu | 12.04 | noarch | expat | < 2.0.1-7.2ubuntu1.4 | UNKNOWN |
| ubuntu | 14.04 | noarch | expat | < 2.1.0-4ubuntu1.3 | UNKNOWN |
| ubuntu | 15.10 | noarch | expat | < 2.1.0-7ubuntu0.15.10.2 | UNKNOWN |
| ubuntu | 16.04 | noarch | expat | < 2.1.0-7ubuntu0.16.04.2 | UNKNOWN |
| ubuntu | 18.04 | noarch | xmlrpc-c | < any | UNKNOWN |
| ubuntu | 20.04 | noarch | xmlrpc-c | < any | UNKNOWN |
| ubuntu | 22.04 | noarch | xmlrpc-c | < any | UNKNOWN |
| ubuntu | 23.10 | noarch | xmlrpc-c | < any | UNKNOWN |
Related
7.8 High
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
7.5 High
CVSS3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
0.007 Low
EPSS
Percentile
81.0%